OBservationaL stUdy to Evaluate Fluid reSolution and Effectiveness in Patients Receiving Beovu (Brolucizumab) Under KeY Treatment Schemes in Neovascular Age-related Macular Degeneration and Visual Impairment Due to Diabetic Macular Edema
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- Novartis Pharmaceuticals
- Enrollment
- 572
- Locations
- 41
- Primary Endpoint
- Percentage of patients' eyes that are absent of subretinal fluid (SRF) and intra-retinal fluid (IRF)
Study Overview
Brief Summary
This study is a prospective, non-interventional, multicenter, open-label study in nAMD and DME patients being treated with brolucizumab according to the EU SmPC.
An observational study design, without a strict, mandated visit schedule or mandated treatment regimen was chosen as the most appropriate to collect available data in a real life setting. For that reason, this NIS does not impose a therapy protocol, diagnostic/therapeutic procedure or a visit schedule. The diagnostic or monitoring procedures are only those ordinarily applied to the therapeutic strategy and to routine clinical care and will take place as per investigator's discretion. This includes e.g. visit frequency, injection frequency and types of assessments performed - only data from routine medical practice will be collected as part of the study.
Detailed Description
BLUE SKY consists of the nAMD-related module BIRL (Brolucizumab In Real Life) and two general, indication-related study modules "BLUE SKY AMD" and "BLUE SKY DME".
Patients will be enrolled at approximately 55 centers, which will be representatively distributed amongst the 16 German federal states. This will ensure to reflect all state-specific health insurance laws and guidelines. Naïve and pre-treated patients will be included after decision to start treatment with brolucizumab and consent is given.
All patients will be documented either in the AMD or DME-module (Full Analysis Set).
For the BIRL module, only naïve nAMD patients enrolled in approximately 7 selected centers will be documented. All these centers are equipped with the Zeiss PlexElite OCT-A, needed to assess and analyze BIRL specific objectives in a comparable setting. Only images from routine medical practice will be collected as part of the study. The study eye will be defined as the first eye treated during the study, the other eye will be considered as fellow eye.
If both eyes are treated at baseline, the eye with the worse VA will be chosen as the study eye (if VA is measured equal, the treating ophthalmologist defines the study eye upon his discretion).
Study Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Observational Model
- Cohort
- Time Perspective
- Prospective
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to 99 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •The unit of analysis is patient-eye, i.e. all criteria should be applied to the study eye, unless otherwise specified. Patients will be included in the study if they fulfil the following requisites:
- •Diagnosis of nAMD or visual impairment due to DME
- •Male and Female nAMD and DME patients with ≥18 years of age at index
- •Decision to treat with brolucizumab at baseline visit
- •Signed written informed consent
- •Patients for whom a therapy with brolucizumab is medically indicated
- •Intraretinal and/or subretinal fluid affecting the central subfield of the study eye at Screening
Exclusion Criteria
- •Patients that have any contraindication or are not eligible for treatment with brolucizumab as according to the SmPC
- •Patients treated for RVO or CNV other than nAMD
- •Receipt of any anti-VEGF treatment other than brolucizumab in the study eye at index date
- •Central subfield of the study eye affected by fibrosis or geographic atrophy or total area of fibrosis >50% of the total lesion (nAMD)
- •Any active intraocular or periocular infection or active intraocular inflammation in either eye at index date
- •Patients who have been on anti-VEGF treatment for longer than 3 years (before index date)
- •Any medical or psychological condition in the treating physician's opinion which may prevent the patient from the 24 months study participation
- •Patients participating in parallel in an interventional clinical trial
- •Patients participating in parallel in any other NIS generating primary data for an anti-VEGF drug
- •Laser photocoagulation (focal/grid or panretinal) in the study eye during the 3-month period prior to baseline
- •Prior use of intraocular or periocular corticosteroids in the study eye provided at least 4 months prior to baseline
- •Pregnancy and breast-feeding
Arms & Interventions
treatment naïve patients
Patients being the first time treated for nAMD or DME
Intervention: brolucizumab (Drug)
pre-treated patients
Patients already being treated for nAMD or DME
Intervention: brolucizumab (Drug)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Percentage of patients' eyes that are absent of subretinal fluid (SRF) and intra-retinal fluid (IRF)
Time Frame: Month 12
This outcome measure is part of the BLUE SKY AMD module. This primary study objective will be addressed considering treatment naïve and pre-treated patient eyes, analyzed as two independent groups (naïve and switch).
Morphological CNV-Changes under clinic specific routine treatment schemes
Time Frame: Baseline, month 12
This outcome measure is part of the BIRL module. This primary study objective will be addressed considering treatment naïve patient eyes. Index date (Baseline): defined as the date of the first anti-VEGF injection (brolucizumab) in patient eye.
Percent of patients maintained on q12w dosing after loading through Week 52
Time Frame: After loading, month 12
This outcome measure is part of the BLUE SKY DME module. This primary study objective will be addressed considering treatment naïve patient eyes included in the study.
Change in interval length from last interval before switch (baseline) to last interval at end of follow-up (12 months)
Time Frame: Baseline, month 12
This outcome measure is part of the BLUE SKY DME module. This primary study objective will be addressed considering pre-treated patient eyes. Index date (Baseline): defined as the date of the first anti-VEGF injection (brolucizumab) in patient eyes.
Mean change in visual actuity (VA) under clinic specific routine treatment schemes
Time Frame: Baseline, month 12
This outcome measure is part of the BIRL module. This primary study objective will be addressed considering treatment naïve patient eyes. Index date (Baseline): defined as the date of the first anti-VEGF injection (brolucizumab) in patient eye.
Secondary Outcomes
- Estimate percentage of switchers during first 6 months and characterize switchers(Baseline, month 6)
- Evaluate anatomical parameters during treatment with brolucizumab(Month 1-12 and 13-24)
- Characterize nAMD patients who initiated treatment with brolucizumab with the respect to baseline characteristics(Baseline)
- Evaluate VA change from baseline during treatment with brolucizumab(Baseline, month 24)
- Estimate number of anti-VEGF injections, visits and injection intervals(Up to month 24)
- Estimate discontinuation rate and time to discontinuation(Month 1-12 and 13-24)
- Assess retreatment criteria(Up to month 24)
- Estimate the number of OCT(Month 1-12 and 13-24)
- Assess the safety of brolucizumab(Up to month 24)
- Evaluate anatomical effectiveness(Up to month 24)
- Evaluate treatment intervals(Up to month 24)
- Describe implementation of treatment schemes into clinical practice(Up to month 24)
- Evaluate morphological changes under brolucizumab treatment using multimodal imaging(Up to month 24)
- Percentage of patient's eyes with absence of IRF and/or SRF at month 12 (naive and switch)(Month 12)
- Characterize VA change from baseline during treatment with brolucizumab(Month 1-12 and 13-24)
- Estimate discontinuation rate during first year of brolucizumab treatment(Baseline, month 12)
- Estimate time to discontinuation (persistence)(Up to month 24)
- Estimate the treatment burden(Month 1-12 and 13-24)
- Estimate the number of OCT and the number of visits with/without OCT(Month 1-12 and 13-24)
- Assess safety of brolucizumab(Up to month 24)
- Evaluate anatomical parameters during treatment with brolucizumab(Up to month 24)